Uh… so.
“Is this something to eat?”
“Anything goes.”
“It’s lively for a change. A familiar sight.”
“Chop chop chop chop chop.”
“Is this a dragon or a pig?”
“Looks like crab stew. I’ll enjoy it gratefully.”
“Can I eat this?”
“Looks delicious!”
What kind of situation is this?
Gapwoo, sitting among countless ‘gods’, frantically darted his pupils, struggling to understand this scenario.
The one who was teaching him, Karabus, suddenly decided to hijack his body and escape? He called for Lasty in a crisis.
The name that the contractor had mentioned in advance.
When he faced Karabus’s formidable rank, he wondered if calling a name would really improve the situation…
“I can’t help it. Let’s just indulge.”
“Uh, um…”
“Follow me.”
“Yes? Yes, yes, absolutely!!”
The incredible Lasty, who effortlessly split Karabus in half, led him with a completely relaxed expression.
Floating corpses in a blood stream deeper than the abyss.
As he followed her, his breath caught again.
There were three other gods powerful enough to make Karabus look like ‘nothing’.
Even if those three didn’t count, many other gods were at least on his level.
He felt like he would have to crawl on the ground like some insignificant creature, so he bowed his head, but Lasty stopped him.
“If you don’t want to end up like a flower crab, stop being all high and mighty.”
“…Yes.”
“You’ve seen it once, no need to exaggerate.”
“Understood.”
At Lasty’s single word, all the oppressive energy weighing on him dissipated.
Moreover, when a drop of blood fell on Gapwoo’s head, his vision cleared, and it became easier to breathe.
Lasty seemed incredible, even more so than he initially thought…
Smack!
His thoughts broke, and in front of him was a bowl of crab stew made from blood.
It’s called crab stew, but it’s essentially made from his own kin’s body…
“Uh… um…”
“What are you doing? Eat it.”
“I-I have to eat! Yes, yes!!”
Shiver shiver…
He picked up the spoon next to him.
After all, she saved him, so he had to endure…!
“If you tell me to eat my own kind, that’s just wrong. Let me eat it myself.”
“Your own kind? These two are fundamentally different. From a spiritual perspective, they’re completely unrelated.”
“Not all creatures can eat as easily as you do. You might not know as a bloodsucker.”
‘…Statue?’
The golden wave filling the floor of this space began to undulate, and Gapwoo’s bowl vanished in an instant.
Even with protection from blood, he could sense the omnipotent power.
One of the three gods who could put Karabus to shame earlier.
‘This person is incredibly strong too…’
What on earth is this place?
Hmph. The girl snorted once, reached out her hand, and the blood carved a path through the golden wave, retrieving Gapwoo’s bowl.
In an instant, there was an immense clash of power unseen by the naked eye, but seeing the bowl returned to its original spot suggested Lasty was the victor.
“Nowadays, I’ve gotten a body and I’m dating, so I’ve become quite soft. Statue?”
‘Dating?’
“Don’t talk nonsense, Bloodsucker. And how long has it been since I left the statue that you still call me that?”
“You have to come in the flesh to call me by your real name. I’m just calling the statue a statue.”
Well…
“If that’s the case, why don’t you come in your original body? Don’t like that?”
“That’s a complicated─”
“Why? Does Serrek want you to stay by his side instead?”
“…It’s a headache. I have work to do, so I’m leaving first.”
The statue grabbed the golden mask with his hand and then vanished in a flash of golden light.
That person’s presence was nowhere to be found.
“Come on, listen. It seems like the statue has sulked and gone off to date again.”
“That… earlier that person is…”
“Oh, it’s just that guy who loves the desert. It’s nothing special. He’ll come back later.”
“Yes…”
Hoo…
I pick up the spoon again.
It’s a bit tense, but yeah. Like I said earlier, I can’t refuse the dish made by the one who helped me.
Moreover, given the circumstances, this place is where the contractor’s friends? are.
I should get close to the contractor’s friends; if I pull away already, they might be disappointed.
‘But I don’t get why they’re escaping if they’re friends.’
So, as I put the spoon into the bowl and was about to bring it to my mouth, suddenly…
‘Snowstorm?’
Something white rushed past in front of me.
For a moment, a chill surged through my entire body, but thanks to Lasty’s protection, I quickly got my bearings back.
“Suddenly something… huh?”
The bowl had vanished.
Where did it go?
“…The pig. I just gave it its legs and all, and now it’s taken that.”
“Huh?”
“No, a white pig took your food.”
Lasty shook her head as if it was no big deal.
Chomp, chomp, chomp.
I could hear sounds of someone eating excitedly from somewhere, but if it’s no big deal, let’s focus on the current situation first.
Swish…
Drops of blood flowed from Lasty’s fingertips, and once again, the bowl containing the crab dish appeared before me.
“Here, eat again.”
“Okay.”
This time, no chance of missing it…!
“Can I eat this?”
“Eh? Huh???”
I was surprised.
I think I’ve been shocked dozens of times in this short time, but the one who appeared in front of me looked even more surprised than anyone else.
Blue hair and blue eyes.
Incredibly beautiful appearance in white saintess robes, but with a somewhat youthful face…
“Co-contractor???!!!”
“Yeah. No, I mean, yes.”
The ‘young’ contractor came scampering towards me, but it looked very small.
‘Aren’t you smaller than me?’
Similar in size to that Leo contractor I saw before.
At that moment, an emotional surge hit me.
‘You’re the one who’s cuter!’
You put in so much effort to be cute, but isn’t it just that you’re the one who’s actually cuter and prettier?
A strange emotion made me want to pout, but I quickly fixed my expression.
Given the situation, there were quite a few questions to ask anyway.
“So, is it true or not?”
“If you ask about ‘Lily Elbrite,’ then that’s me, but if you’re asking about the ‘Contractor,’ then that’s not me.”
“???”
Aren’t they the same thing?
But why is it different?
Could it be…?
“…Are you perhaps a daughter?”
“Eh, ‘Lily’ has nothing like that.”
“That’s right, that’s right.”
“That’s true. It’s just that you keep collecting this stuff.”
A little girl contractor and a slightly taller girl with brown hair in the back. And Lasty nodded and said that.
…Now that I think about it, that brown-haired girl seems like she isn’t a god, but her rank is strangely high.
To be precise, it changes from time to time.
“Is the contractor one?”
“For now? Of course, I’m Lily, and Lily is Lily. There’s no change in this.”
“…Hmm.”
“But if you’re asking about ‘Contractor’ right now, then I could say I’m not Lily.”
“It’s complicated.”
“Isn’t it? It was the same for me.”
The young contractor giggled.
I have no idea what’s what, but what I can tell right now is that ‘the two Lilies aren’t really that different.’
There were differences in speech and personality, but it was hard to view them as completely separate beings.
At least when I first saw her, the aura and flow were entirely that of the contractor.
Anyway. The young contractor happily took the bowl like a child.
Unlike before, Lasty let her take the bowl, and they laughed and shared it with the girl in the back.
The incredibly cool contractor was nice, but that kind of appearance wasn’t bad either.
‘So cute…’
“Um…”
Swish!
Once again, a bowl appears.
The steam wafting from it looks incredibly delicious.
‘If only it weren’t crab soup…’
If it were clam soup, I could finish ten bowls or even a hundred!
“Are we… eating?”
“I have a feeling it won’t be good again. Well. Eat.”
“…Hoo.”
I pick up the spoon.
Then I dropped it.
“Ahhhhh…?”
The deep sea’s eye is staring at me.
Compared to the previous Karabus, this eye is on a whole different level.
Facing the purple eye, everything I knew about the world crumbles and I become one with the deep sea.
If this continues, I might lose all rank and power, and my existence will scatter… Crash.
‘Crash?’
“Why are you waking up from your sleep talk?”
Lasty sighed and, over there, threw a bloody spear into the darkened space.
The blood burst the half-awake purple eye, and a massive flow of blood cleared that darkness for a moment.
Upon closer inspection, it wasn’t just dark; it was all one hana / hana / hana / hana.
“Uuuugh!”
“Oh? Why did the protection come off?”
“Why did the protection come off?”
Swish! As blood poured over my head again, the nausea that had me choking settled down.
“…I thought I was going to die.”
“Oh. Lily came and released it. Sorry. My blood is in direct opposition to the holy.”
“Ah, no…”
For a moment, I almost felt like my entire existence was flipping upside down, but at least I was back, right?
Anyway, I decided to think that way.
“But what about that person? Something worse than Karabus…”
“Just an octopus. An octopus with a lot of eyes.”
‘An octopus with a lot of eyes…?’
Isn’t that a pretty shabby way to talk about a tremendously great existence? But this ‘girl’ is holding back the rank of everyone here.
In other words, the girl, Lasty, is stronger than all of them.
Gapwoo sincerely appreciated that such an existence was friendly towards him.
“Anyway, I’m really going to eat again.”
“Don’t eat.”
Clang! The spoon was snatched away by a pale hand.
Hmph…
“You’re looking all sad and the meddlesome people are plenty, so it feels like I’m force-feeding you. Just don’t eat.”
“Okay…”
I felt some sort of way about it, but it was a relief that I wasn’t to eat regardless.
As I waited momentarily for their eating show, I looked around more.
The black clouds, groaning horses, half-corpses… no, bloodsuckers, which used to be corpses. Anyway, there were several gods, but…
“After all…”
“?”
“After all, is Karabus… dead? Ah, no, asking now that he’s like this is a bit—”
“What are you talking about? Why would a crab be dead?”
“?”
Huh?
A huge question popped into my mind, but Lasty tilted her head like a doll and answered.
“This kind of escape is common. They all have fierce personalities, so they get together and try to cause chaos to escape when they have the chance.”
Unlike this ‘peaceful’ Space of Despair now, everyone here was once a prisoner.
All of them were prisoners from Lily’s soul, who had come in committing massacres or destruction.
So, Lily didn’t expect much from them and shrugged it off even if they caused a ruckus.
‘They won’t be able to do anything, anyway.’
“So then this is… what?”
“This is just a body made by her ability that eats. The soul is right here.”
“…Ugh. Crazy bloodsucker!!”
As Lasty snapped her fingers, the air changed for a moment, and Karabus, soaked in blood, had his head buried in the ground.
It seemed he had lost his mind for what felt like hundreds, thousands of hours.
“Crab. Must be comfortable, huh? Do you want to go back to Blood Prison like before?”
“Kill me…”
“Kill you? No one can die without my permission.”
Once you enter Lily’s soul, no one can arbitrarily die.
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